Your question brings back fond memories. I once was president of the Tampa Bay Florida Chapter of Association of Computing Machinery and my wife Charlotte and I picked up Grace Hopper at the Tampa airport and brought her to the dinner meeting to speak. She did talk about the nano-second wire but more importantly talked about the need for industry standard languages such as COBOL and standard communications protocols such as TCP/IP and HTML which evolved out of the DARPA military network. Hopper was a leader with vision:
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